{"id":598491,"date":"2026-09-12T22:14:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T22:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/598491\/"},"modified":"2026-09-12T22:14:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T22:14:09","slug":"two-winners-split-10-million-must-be-won-lotto-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/598491\/","title":{"rendered":"Two winners split $10 million must-be-won Lotto prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  [&amp;_p]:tit-sub-xl tit-sub-xl md:[&amp;_p]:d-tit-sub-xl md:d-tit-sub-xl mb-[1.3rem]\">Two people have taken home $5.03 million each after Saturday&#8217;s must-be-won Powerball draw.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Powerball First Division was not won, with the winners coming from the Second Division draw.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">They won $5.01 million from Powerball and another $13,353 from Lotto Second Division, bringing their total winnings to $5,027,676 each.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Two players also won Lotto&#8217;s First Division, receiving $500,000 from the draw.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Saturday&#8217;s Powerball draw was the final one under the current 10-ball format, with draws starting from Wednesday, September 16, changing to the new 14-ball game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Although Lotto closed overnight to allow time to update to the new format, customers can buy tickets for Wednesday&#8217;s draw from Sunday morning, once MyLotto and retailers reopen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two people have taken home $5.03 million each after Saturday&#8217;s must-be-won Powerball draw. Powerball First Division was not&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":598492,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[111,43,139,69,244],"class_list":["post-598491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-personal-finance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=598491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/598492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}